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Alive Activities is seeking an experienced, compassionate and community-focused individual to deliver an innovative new programme supporting older people living with both cancer and dementia, particularly within Black Caribbean and South Asian communities.
This exciting new role will lead the delivery of Same Mind, Same Body — a community-led project designed to record cancer care experiences, investigate inequalities, and share findings with stakeholders Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. You will be working closely with a project coordinator from the Bristol Pakistani Community Welfare Organisation.
Working alongside community organisations, healthcare professionals and people with lived experience, you will help:
- Identify barriers within cancer and dementia care pathways
- Build trusted relationships with underserved communities
- Co-design culturally responsive and dementia-friendly solutions
- Pilot new approaches to support, communication and care navigation
- Share findings with stakeholders
We are looking for someone with strong project management and partnership-building skills, alongside a genuine commitment to tackling health inequalities and improving the lives of older people.
You will bring:
- Experience delivering community health, dementia, cancer or inequality-focused services
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Confidence working across community and healthcare settings
- Experience facilitating engagement, workshops or co-production activity
- A person-centred, inclusive and compassionate approach
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage complex projects
Experience working with Black Caribbean and/or South Asian communities, dementia services, or participatory research approaches would be highly desirable.
About Alive
Alive Activities is a Bristol-based charity working creatively alongside older people, including people living with dementia and their carers, to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and create positive change in health and care systems.
We value collaboration, inclusion, compassion and community leadership. We especially welcome applications from people with lived experience connected to the communities and issues at the heart of this project.
To Apply
Please apply direct on Charity job send your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 1 side of A4) outlining your suitability for the role to Isobel Jones, details on Alive's website.
Closing date: 9.30 am Friday 26th June
Interview date: Friday 3rd July
Enhanced DBS check required.
To ensure older people live lives full of joy, meaning and opportunity.

Are you passionate about ensuring people with lived experience are at the heart of creating change? Join Shelter as a Senior Lived Experience Coordinator and help shape and influence our campaigns, policy and communications work through meaningful involvement and co-production.
About the role
This is an exciting role within the Lived Experience Insight team, focusing on development and co-ordination of an engaging and impactful involvement and coproduction programme that delivers meaningful opportunities for people with lived experience of the housing emergency to shape and influence Shelter’s work. You will lead on planning and delivery of Lived Experience Insight across your directorate through front line delivery in the CPC Directorate and supportive line management.
Role specifics
We’re looking for someone who can lead and develop meaningful lived experience insight work that helps shape services, influence change and strengthen co-production across Shelter. You’ll work closely with teams across your directorate and nationally to coordinate insight projects, share learning and embed lived experience into decision-making and ways of working. The role requires you to support wellbeing, safeguarding and personal development for people involved in our work and helping create pathways into volunteering and employment. You’ll also design and deliver training and resources for colleagues, while ensuring activity is well monitored, evaluated and continuously improved.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
The Lived Experience Insight team deliver involvement and co-production activities across the organisation, which shape the ongoing design, delivery and governance of Shelter’s work. People with lived experience are involved in a range of ways, including lived experience groups, codesigning Shelter's services and campaigns, sharing decision making on staff recruitment and supporting external influencing and systemic change via consultation and coproduction with key stakeholders.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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You’ll work closely with our Engagement & Services Team as well as externally with cleft team professionals and researchers to help us achieve our mission.
The Involvement Coordinator is responsible for increasing, diversifying and strengthening community involvement across CLAPA. Working closely with colleagues, they will ensure that the cleft community is at the heart of everything we do, championing engagement, inclusion and co-production across all activities. They will create and enable a spectrum of meaningful involvement opportunities that support CLAPA’s work, amplify the voice of the cleft community, shape the future of our services and enable change. They will demonstrate the impact of involvement and enable us to continuously improve.
If you think you have the talent, passion and experience to help us ensure we can always meet the needs of the community we serve, we want to hear from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.